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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by objclxt on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:02PM (#17222006)
> I hope they don't discontinue Atom

Atom is MIT licensed, GitHub can't "discontinue" Atom so much as stop paying their engineers to contribute to the project. After that it's whether there's enough impetus outside the company to continue the work (I suspect there probably is, Facebook are heavily invested in Atom).

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by bdcravens on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:38PM (#17222370)
How many build from source as opposed to downloading binaries from atom.io?
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by ReverseCold on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:20PM (#17223722)
Someone can just make `libreatom` and start distributing binaries. The MIT license is nice like that.
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